A Discussion of Afghanistan

Great talk on Afghanistan, the pro-war media, and the resurgence of neoconservatism with @CurtMills and @ArtaMoeini, two very smart guys. Follow them! https://t.co/2zybwEwXD1

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) August 21, 2021

Against the...

Against the Globalist American Empire https://t.co/EasAA3o5z2

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) August 20, 2021

Organizing Reds? A New Straussian Project

When your political philosophy lacks any concept of the good, there is no limit to what you might be led to support.

This is one reason we are launching American Reformer. https://t.co/zGq12G9bQ8

— Nate Fischer (@NateAFischer) August 7, 2021

What danger from the Claremont Institute/West Coast Straussians?

“Beauchamp’s Vox screed recalls a National Review feature article written by David Frum in March 2003 which raked myself and many of my paleoconservative friends over the coals,” writes Dr. Paul Gottfried. https://t.co/bY0Q2650lu

— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) August 7, 2021

The ideas of radical equality held by the Claremont Institute’s founder are inadequate to combat the left.

Grant Havers weighs in on the debate between the Claremonters and paleoconservatives on America's founding values:https://t.co/RbxWtw2tSr

— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) August 6, 2021

Lincoln's appeal to the “natural rights” of all human beings at the height of the Civil War does not contradict his assumption that people already schooled in biblical morality, as opposed to “unassisted reason,” are best able to understand moral duty. https://t.co/RbxWtw2tSr

— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) August 6, 2021

John Zmirak Interviews Pedro Gonzalez

My interview with The Stream! https://t.co/RwQmmOszbv

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) July 22, 2021

A Review of Michael Anton's The Stakes

“Anton concedes that civic nationalism is not a replacement for the bonds of kinship, shared history, common language and faith, but a buttress to strengthen those loyalties and sources of identity.” https://t.co/GNU8vCooeo

— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) July 15, 2021

Pedro Gonzalez Interview

Had a great talk today with these two today about paleoconservatism, paleolibertarianism, the correct kind of ecumenicism, elites, and looking toward the future https://t.co/UTsJntWM8O

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) June 22, 2021

Interview with Dr. Fleming

Such an incredible interview by my friend @buckrebel w/ the always-intriguing and introspective Thomas Fleming! https://t.co/5I6PPDsLVB

— Dissident Mama (@Dissident_Mama) May 8, 2021

My ep w/Dr Thomas Fleming.He tells the story of the paleo-libertarian alliance,his days w Rothbard,his critiques of libertarianism, the need for something more than the NAP, League of the South,his stories of hanging with Lou Reed and the VU & more. https://t.co/auLcjUwOMO

— Buck (@buckrebel) May 4, 2021

Michael Anton Calls for a Truce and an Alliance Between Straussians and Paleos

As someone more on the paleo side of these old divides, I think Michael Anton is fair and persuasive here: https://t.co/N8SWke9mGp

— Helen Andrews (@herandrews) May 3, 2021

Lincoln and the DOI do not define what it means to be American; rather the DOI is understood properly within the Anglo-American political tradition which paleos claim to uphold, and is not the same as Straussian nationalism. Lincoln is judged negatively by that same tradition. One can claim that the Anglo-American political tradition is increasingly irrelevant thanks to deliberate mass miseducation and demographic change. Reds will have to decide whether they will and how they will defend their identity and culture. ("Find your tribe.") History and culture is passed on by a community or a people, and regardless of whether individuals are convinced by one side in academic squabbling over history, the DOI, etc., they need to find a group with whom they share a culture, and prepare for imperial collapse. In imperial collapse, Straussians and paleos will have to decide how much their view of history really matters, if they find themselves among people unsympathetic to their view, though I think that paleos will have, at least for a while longer, a better chance of persuading Reds.

A Podcast Featuring Paul Gottfried

The first episode of Discourses is online, on the Conservative Movement with Paul Gottfried. Think of this as a more interesting and belligerent version of Conversations with Bill Kristol. We talk neocons, paleocons, fusionism, and Paul's reading list.https://t.co/zDlGidpynB

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) January 26, 2021

What Does Milbank Know of Paleoconservatism or Politike?

I simply don’t understand why so many American Catholic intellectuals support American styles of conservatism, whether neo or paleo. Neither pure capitalist market nor nationalist economic self-interest are compatible with Papal teaching or the Gospel. Americanism trumps faith.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) December 17, 2020

A Review of The Vanishing Tradition

NEW, Carl F. Horowitz reviews Paul Gottfried. As the gatekeepers of the conservative movement have their fantasies ripped away, the Old Right looks for a new way forward. https://t.co/M3IQl061tV

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) October 22, 2020

AmConMag

C. Jay Engel on (Paleo)Libertarianism

Another Review of the Vanishing Tradition

A very good review of Paul Gottfried's new book, “The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism," by Bradford H. B. "In today’s social chaos, we might be witnessing the logical culmination of the idea of propositional nationhood." https://t.co/jKF1dAtCUm

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) September 27, 2020

American Greatness

Paul Gottfried on the Tom Woods Show

ICYMI, Chronicles Editor Paul Gottfried was on the great @ThomasEWoods' show last week for a free-ranging discussion about the knee-jerk leftist instincts of the establishment right, and about the storied, must-read @ChroniclesMag (Ahem!). Check it out: https://t.co/uvVYE8YVar

— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) September 7, 2020

Ep 1726

An appearance on a previous episode to discuss The Vanishing Tradition: 1678

Jerry Salyer Reviews The Vanishing Tradition

CWR: New book ponders the continuity (and conservatism) of today’s conservative movement
A Review of The Vanishing Tradition, edited by Paul Gottfried.

Cornell University Press

A Conversation with Dr. Allan Carlson

A Blue Collar Defense of Latin Integralists

Alas it isn't a good one.

AmConMag: A Workingman’s Case for Integralism by Ian Bothur
The blue-collar mind instinctively understands many of the things libertarian Catholic professors seem to miss.

James Patterson's critique would have been more effective if he had elaborated upon the "theoretical issues" but when the proponents of Catholic integralism, namely Ahamari and Vermeule, have not written treatises themselves, it might be difficult to write an academic response. Hence the essay for Law and Liberty which was probably unsatisfying for those looking for a deep discussion. Patterson's essay is not without weaknesses as well, but he is more correct than Vermeule with respect to understanding the Constitution, regardless of whether he is correctly characterized as a libertarian or not.

The author of the essay writes:

Out in the real world, people say things like “it’s my right to do such-and-such” or “you can’t tell me what to think about such-and-such” and so forth. Such arguments are framed as though rooted in a liberal philosophical tradition, but they are not. Rather, the liberal “order” has merely furnished the masses with a rhetorical mallet. The unlettered man of the real world does not really think like a liberal. He thinks in terms of right and wrong, good and bad. When a plumber says, “you’re entitled to your opinion,” he means that he thinks your opinion is garbage, but does not consider it a valuable use of his time to persuade you otherwise. When an electrician says, “the government shouldn’t force people to do what they think is wrong,” what he means is that he has no faith in law enforcement and is therefore terrified at the prospect of having his weapons confiscated just as the world seems to be growing more dangerous. When a lathe operator says, “it’s not hurting anyone, so who am I to judge,” what he means is that he hates it but is unwilling to damage his already tenuous family dynamic in a failed attempt to stop it.

If people in the real world no longer understand the "rights of Englishmen" or political liberty, than that's not a sign that their simpler worldview is better but that the Anglo-American political tradition has largely disappeared and the institutions of "public education" have failed at handing it on. (Or rather, they have been deliberately used to advance an ideology opposed to republican liberty.)

Aside from his colorblind approach to politics, the average (Catholic) blue-collar worker does not have “republican associations.” He does not, as far as liberals are concerned, participate in the public sphere in any meaningful sense. His life is divided into weeks. In each week, he spends the majority of his time at work and commuting to or from work. He savors every Saturday as his time to recuperate from the drudgery of the previous five days. His Sunday is spent at Mass in the morning and with his family in the evening. In short, the working-man’s whole existence is divided unevenly into employment, entertaining himself at home, and going to Mass. In the liberal worldview, these are all “private” endeavors: He never sets foot in the public sphere.

This is where integralism can enter the heart of every normal, real-world person; in the realization that even the meek and the uneducated are not prisoners of “private enterprise,” but actively participate in the social order; in the sobering sense that one’s life is presently ruled not by himself, nor by those he already yearns to serve (i.e. Christ and His Church), but by a power that is inimical to the common good; and in the knowledge that the claims of liberalism are a farce and do not grant him the benefits of liberty, but in fact justify and enable the most oppressive forces in his life.

If he has no republican associations, that is because he does not live in a real community. That is the public sphere; he doesn't participate in a social order but a social disorder, whether it be the living arrangements where he resides or in reference to how power is exercised over him by those who rule.

We are all in dire need of reasserting the reign of Christ over every single area of our lives. 

The Word of God offers no specific regime for men, nor does it require Latin integralism or for Latin opinions about "Church and state relations," that is the relationship of the authority of bishops to polities, to be fulfilled.

Get the Message Out

Mike Krieger: The Future Must Be Decentralized and Localized (ZeroHedge)

Time to Educate People

We May Never Be the Same Once This Virus is Through With Us by Robert Merry
The Great Mississippi Flood of '27 and the Depression led to a massive political realignment in America. This could too.

Rod Dreher: How The Pandemic Will Change Us
A 'temple exile' mentality regarding religious worship and university education could be a permanent legacy

Paleo Realism

AmConMag: What the Machiavellians Can Teach Us About the National Interest by Chilton Williamson Jr.
It was through them that James Burnham learned to renounce ideology and see the world as it actually is.